Comment 29 for bug 963895

I noticed the Layout issue as well. It was out of my control. Someone patched KMix so orientation in the Tray follows the configured orientation. This is a good thing.
I had documented years ago in the source code something like "This is good enough. We always have only one Control in the Tray". Which is - well - nowadays not true any longer.

About whether to add my refactoring to 4.8, we'll see. Its really really hardcore changes - about every part of KMix is affected (Window, Volume restorer, also all non-GUI-Parts, DBUS, Tray, ...). I am happy that I now have a version that only shows some strange strings and crashes only at quit.

I tried to reproduce the crashes wildly changing volume controls, but - no way. Neither with Pulseaudio backend, ALSA, MPRIS2, mixed backends.